The Mars Technology Institute has been set up to pave the way for human exploration and advance technological developments to form a colony on the red planet.
Mars settlements could operate with much fewer people than previously thought, a new study found, while also demonstrating the type of person best suited to a stay up to 28 years on the Red Planet.
should not be directed at the moon and humans going there but should be directed at mars and step by step ways of becoming capable of going to mars and establishing mars settlements. that opens the door for a two phase program. one of them the first phase about ten years which would take us to the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing and then a reaffirmation of what the first phase is headed toward, which is mars settlement. we need a 25 year two-phase program toward mars settlement. we can change the direction after ten years but we need to have a focus for what it is we re replacing constellation and nasa american human back to the moon. the focus now is on the space station and, of course, going from there. buzz aldrin the second human